v1.12.0

Minor Changes

• #426 bbbcee7 Thanks @miguelg719! - Observe got a major upgrade. Now it will return a suggested playwright method with any necessary arguments for the generated candidate elements. It also includes a major speedup when using a11y tree processing for context.

• #452 16837ec Thanks @kamath! - add o3-mini to availablemodel

• #441 1032d7d Thanks @seanmcguire12! - allow act to accept observe output

Patch Changes

• #458 da2e5d1 Thanks @miguelg719! - Updated getAccessibilityTree() to make sure it doesn't skip useful nodes. Improved getXPathByResolvedObjectId() to account for text nodes and not skip generation

• #448 b216072 Thanks @seanmcguire12! - improve handling of radio button clicks

• #445 5bc514f Thanks @miguelg719! - Adding back useAccessibilityTree param to observe with a deprecation warning/error indicating to use onlyVisible instead

v1.10.1

Patch Changes

• #422 a2878d0 Thanks @miguelg719! - Fixing a build type error for async functions being called inside evaulate for observeHandler.

v1.10.0

Minor Changes

• #412 4aa4813 Thanks @miguelg719! - Includes a new format to get website context using accessibility (a11y) trees. The new context is provided optionally with the flag useAccessibilityTree for observe tasks.

• #417 1f2b2c5 Thanks @sameelarif! - Simplify Stagehand method calls by allowing a simple string input instead of an options object.

• #405 0df1e23 Thanks @seanmcguire12! - in ProcessAllOfDom, scroll on large scrollable elements instead of just the root DOM

• #373 ff00965 Thanks @sameelarif! - Allow the input of custom instructions into the constructor so that users can guide, or provide guardrails to, the LLM in making decisions.

Patch Changes

• #386 2cee0a4 Thanks @kamath! - add demo gif

• #362 9c20de3 Thanks @seanmcguire12! - reduce collisions and improve accuracy of textExtract

• #413 737b4b2 Thanks @seanmcguire12! - remove topMostElement check when verifying visibility of text nodes

• #388 e93561d Thanks @kamath! - Export LLMClient type

v1.9.0

Minor Changes

• #374 207244e Thanks @sameelarif! - Pass in a Stagehand Page object into the on("popup") listener to allow for multi-page handling.

• #367 75c0e20 Thanks @kamath! - Logger in LLMClient is inherited by default from Stagehand. Named rather than positional arguments are used in implemented LLMClients.

• #381 db2ef59 Thanks @kamath! - make logs only sync

• #385 5899ec2 Thanks @sameelarif! - Moved the LLMClient logger paremeter to the createChatCompletion method options.

• #364 08907eb Thanks @kamath! - exposed llmClient in stagehand constructor

Patch Changes

• #383 a77efcc Thanks @sameelarif! - Unified LLM input/output types for reduced dependence on OpenAI types

• b7b3701 Thanks @kamath! - Fix $1-types exposed to the user

• #353 5c6f14b Thanks @kamath! - Throw custom error if context is referenced without initialization, remove act/extract handler from index

• #360 89841fc Thanks @kamath! - Remove stagehand nav entirely

• #379 b1c6579 Thanks @seanmcguire12! - dont require LLM Client to use non-ai stagehand functions

• #371 30e7d09 Thanks @kamath! - pretty readme :)

• #382 a41271b Thanks @sameelarif! - Added example implementation of the Vercel AI SDK as an LLMClient

• #344 c1cf345 Thanks @kamath! - Remove duplicate logging and expose Page/BrowserContext types

v1.8.0

Minor Changes

• #324 cd23fa3 Thanks @kamath! - Move stagehand.act() -> stagehand.page.act() and deprecate stagehand.act()

• #319 bacbe60 Thanks @kamath! - We now wrap playwright page/context within StagehandPage and StagehandContext objects. This helps us augment the Stagehand experience by being able to augment the underlying Playwright

• #324 cd23fa3 Thanks @kamath! - moves extract and act -> page and deprecates stagehand.extract and stagehand.observe

Patch Changes

• #320 c0cdd0e Thanks @kamath! - bug fix: set this.env to LOCAL if BROWSERBASE_API_KEY is not defined

• #325 cc46f34 Thanks @pkiv! - only start domdebug if enabled

v1.7.0

Minor Changes

• #316 902e633 Thanks @kamath! - rename browserbaseResumeSessionID -> browserbaseSessionID

• #296 f11da27 Thanks @kamath! - - Deprecate fields in init in favor of constructor options

  • Deprecate initFromPage in favor of browserbaseResumeSessionID in constructor
  • Rename browserBaseSessionCreateParams -> browserbaseSessionCreateParams

• #304 0b72f75 Thanks @seanmcguire12! - add textExtract: an optional, text based approach to the existing extract method. textExtract often performs better on long form extraction tasks. By default extract uses the existing approach domExtract.

• #298 55f0cd2 Thanks @kamath! - Add sessionId to public params

Patch Changes

• #283 b902192 Thanks @sameelarif! - allowed customization of eval config via .env

• #299 fbe2300 Thanks @sameelarif! - log playwright actions for better debugging

v1.6.0

Minor Changes

#279 d6d7057 Thanks @navidkpr, @sameelarif, @kamath! - Add support for o1-mini and o1-preview in OpenAIClient

#282 5291797 Thanks @sameelarif! - Added eslint for stricter type checking. Streamlined most of the internal types throughout the cache, llm, and handlers. This should make it easier to add new LLMs down the line, maintain and update the existing code, and make it easier to add new features in the future. Types can be checked by running npx eslint . from the project directory.

Patch Changes

#286 9605836 Thanks @navidkpr! - minor improvement in action + new eval case

#270 6b10b3b Thanks @sameelarif! - add close link to readme

#288 5afa0b9 Thanks @tan-z-tan! - add multi-region support for browserbase

#284 474217c Thanks @kamath! - Build wasn't working, this addresses tsc failure.

#236 85483fe Thanks @seanmcguire12! - reduce chunk size

v1.5.0

Minor Changes

• #266 0e8f34f Thanks @kamath! - Install wasn't working from NPM due to misconfigured build step. This attempts to fix that.

v1.4.0

Minor Changes

• #253 598cae2 Thanks @sameelarif! - clean up contexts after use

Patch Changes

• #225 a2366fe Thanks @sameelarif! - Ensuring cross-platform compatibility with tmp directories

• #249 7d06d43 Thanks @seanmcguire12! - fix broken evals

• #227 647eefd Thanks @kamath! - Fix debugDom still showing chunks when set to false

• #250 5886620 Thanks @seanmcguire12! - add ci specific evals

• #222 8dff026 Thanks @sameelarif! - Streamline type definitions and fix existing typescript errors

• #232 b9f9949 Thanks @kamath! - Minor changes to package.json and tsconfig, mainly around the build process. Also add more type defs and remove unused dependencies.

v1.3.0

What's Changed

• [REVERTED] remove internal oai zod helper by @filip-michalsky in #193
• Re-add structured logging by @kamath in #195
• Pass in script content to playwright to make running browser scripts easier by @jeremypress in #192
• Add evals for each model by @kamath in #196
• Remove caching by @kamath in #197

Full Changelog: v1.2.0...v1.3.0